Artificial Intelligence Poses Data Privacy Challenges

International privacy regulators are increasingly concerned about the need to balance innovation and consumer protection in artificial intelligence and other data driven technologies, global privacy chiefs said Oct. 19.

Data protection officials from more than 60 countries expressed their concerns over challenges posed by the emerging fields of robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning due to the new tech’s unpredictable outcomes. The global privacy regulators also discussed the difficulties of regulating encryption standards and how to balance law enforcement agency access to information with personal privacy rights.

Such technological developments “pose challenges for a consent model of data collection,” and ...